Obama: Iraq will need additional U.S. assistance

Home World Obama: Iraq will need additional U.S. assistance 12-06-2014 08:24 PM Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that Iraq would need additional support from the United States to push back a rapidly spreading Islamist insurgency. The president did not specify what type of assistance he would willing to provide. However, he added, the White House had not ruled anything out, the Associated Press reported. He says he is watching the situation in Iraq with concern and wants to ensure that jihadists do not get a foothold. Meanwhile France said on Thursday world powers needed to act urgently to deal with the situation in Iraq as the advance by Islamist militants put the country’s unity in doubt and posed a wider risk for the region. “The advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant seriously puts into danger the unity and sovereignty of Iraq and ... it poses a serious threat to the stability of the region,” Fabius said in a statement of ISIL fighters. “The international community must imperatively deal with the situation,” according to Reuters. Iraq has been beset by violence since the last American forces withdrew in late 2011. The violence escalated this week with the militant jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria capturing two key Sunni-dominated cities this week and vowing to march on to Baghdad. *Agencies

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Obama: Iraq will need additional U.S. assistance

12-06-2014 08:24 PM

Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that Iraq would need additional support from the United States to push back a rapidly spreading Islamist insurgency.

The president did not specify what type of assistance he would willing to provide. However, he added, the White House had not ruled anything out, the Associated Press reported.

He says he is watching the situation in Iraq with concern and wants to ensure that jihadists do not get a foothold.

Meanwhile France said on Thursday world powers needed to act urgently to deal with the situation in Iraq as the advance by Islamist militants put the country’s unity in doubt and posed a wider risk for the region.

“The advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant seriously puts into danger the unity and sovereignty of Iraq and ... it poses a serious threat to the stability of the region,” Fabius said in a statement of ISIL fighters. “The international community must imperatively deal with the situation,” according to Reuters.

Iraq has been beset by violence since the last American forces withdrew in late 2011. The violence escalated this week with the militant jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria capturing two key Sunni-dominated cities this week and vowing to march on to Baghdad.

*Agencies

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